[Vwoolf] Flipping the script on Virginia Woolf

[Stuart N. Clarke]

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Dear oh dear oh dear.  So  Daisy is a Eurasian, is she?  I expect the author 
was tempted by the ref. to Daisy's being "very dark" - and ran with it. 
Shall we speculate on how many Eurasians were publicly married to majors in 
the Indian Army at that time?  Daisy doesn't seem to be ostracised, since 
there are refs. to Majors Orde and Simmons (or is he her husband? the author 
thinks so).  Peter Walsh has confided in Mrs Burgess in India, who has 
pointed out the disadvantages of his marrying Daisy, but she has made no 
ref. to the enormous additional problems he would face in marrying a 
divorced mixed-race woman.

Instead of "There’s something wonderfully subversive about taking a 
well-known Western text and flipping it inside out to reveal societal 
truths", it's sounds more like piggy-backing on Woolf to sell copies of this 
(fantasy) novel.

Stuart

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From: Kristin Czarnecki via Vwoolf
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2022 10:04 PM
To: Virginia Woolf
Subject: [Vwoolf] Flipping the script on Virginia Woolf

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A new book explores the character of Daisy from MD.

Cheers,

Kristin

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/flipping-the-script-on-virginia-woolf-20220421-p5af19.html__;!!KGKeukY!w50Arb0a5ofxhJOyZPHpOsXJraydeip_jzZtDOaYSEyFlmGP2tmXSSwCzC0khnSfwRUDOj5Cxidp6LmOjPFABwtS$


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